Since the beginning of 2017 6 thousand pigs killed because of the ASF

Since the beginning of 2017 veterinarians have confiscated and killed over 6.2 thousand pigs due to outbreaks of ASF in Ukraine. This is reported by UNIAN.

It is noted that since 2012 veterinarians have slaughtered more than 129 thousand pigs. By the end of 2016 veterinarians killed 51.9 thousand animals.

"Since early 2017 veterinarians registered 77 outbreaks of ASF in Ukraine compared to 91 outbreaks for the entire 2016. Since 2012 in Ukraine veterinarians registered the total of 225 outbreaks of ASF in 23 regions. The majority of cases were registered in Poltava (30), Odessa (29), Chernigov (27), Mykolayiv (24) and Kharkov (15) regions", the report says.

As a reminder, the experts have developed a new version of the instructions for fighting ASF.